By Associated Press - Saturday, March 2, 2019

GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) - A Montana district judge who went missing in bitter cold conditions after trying to find his lost dog was awake and alert in a hospital after searchers found him.

KFBB-TV reports that Cascade County Sheriff Jesse Slaughter says Judge John Parker was in stable condition Friday night after he was found about 5:30 p.m. Friday south of Great Falls and flown to Benefis Hospital in Great Falls by helicopter.

Slaughter says Parker went missing about 2 p.m. while outside looking for his dog and ran into problems with the weather.

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Searchers on snowmobiles were used to look for him.

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Information from: KFBB-TV, http://www.kfbb.com

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